Fluid and oil burner.



PATENTBD JUNE 11, 1907.

L. B. BULLINGTON. FLUID AND OIL BURNER. APPLICATION FILED APR.2,1907.

attoznew LEVI B. BULLINGTON, OF DEXTER, KANSAS.-

FLUID AND OIL BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Batented. June 11, 1967.

Application filed April 2, 1907. Serial N0- 365,919.

To all whovn'it may concern:

' Be it knownthat I, LEVI B. BULLINGTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dexter, in the county of Cowley and State of Kansas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fluid and Oil Burners,of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a burner for vaporized liquid fuel, and has for itsobject to provide improved means for commencing and continuing thevaporization of the fuel.

The burner is particularly adapted for the combustion of crudepetroleum, although other hydro-carbons may be used if desired.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is aside elevation, partly in section, of the apparatus.

Referring specifically to the drawing, 6 indicates the tank or source ofsupply for the oil. A pipe 7 leads from the tank to the burner, and isprovided with a controlling valve 8. The end of the pipe at the burneris turned or presented upwardly, and it supportsa primary generating pan9 which extends around the same. Above the pan the pipe is branched tothe form of a T, the branches being indicated at 10, projecting from thepipe a short distance below the upper end thereof. Above the branchesthe pipe is perforated as at 11 to form burner orifices. Extendingupwardly from each of the arms or branches 10 is a pipe or tube 12,connected by a bend 13 at the top to a downwardly extending part 14,which terminates at an open nozzle, at 15, located under the branch 10and directed toward the main pipe 7. The ends of the pipe 7 and itsbranches 10 are closed by plugs or caps.

In the use of the burner, the generation is started by opening the valve8 and allowing a small quantity of the oil to flow out the holes 11 anddown into the pan 9. This oil is then lighted and will heat the oil inthe head of the burner sufficiently to vaporize the same. The pressureincident to the vaporization causes the gas to flow up through the pipes12 and thence down through the pipes 14 to the burner openings where, indue time, it will ignite and continue the generation and combustion. Theheat will speedily fill the burner head and the loops with gas, whichwill thus burn at the orifices 11 as well as at the nozzles 15.

The loops 12, 13 and 14 serve to form a chamber of sufficient size tocontain the gas generated, and inasmuch as the heat is concentrated fromthe nozzles 15 against the head of the pipe the oil is vaporized as fastas it is fed thereto, the heat at the T being very intense, so thatafter initial generation oil will very rarely appear, and if it doesescape it will simply flow out of the openings 11 and into the pan whereit will be consumed. Necessarily no oil can flow up through the loops,since it will not rise therein any higher than the orifices 11, but thegas generated, being in 'much larger volume, will readily flow aroundthe loops to the main nozzles. Although the device is shown with twoloops, it may be operated with one.

I claim:

1. A burner comprising a supply pipe having external ignition jet holesat the upper end, and a looped tube extending upwardly from the pipe andreturned downwardly and having a burner nozzle directed toward the samebelow said holes.

2. A burner comprising an u wardly projecting supply pipe having aqaterally extending branch pipe, and external ignition jet holes, and alooped tube extending upwardly from said branch and above the jet holes,and terminating in a nozzle under said branch.

3. A burner-comprising an upwardly projecting pipe having a T head andexternal ignition jet holes above said head, and looped tubes extendingupwardly from said .branches, above the level of the jet holes,

and then downwardly, and terminating in nozzles under said branches and,directed toward the pipe.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

LEVI B. BULLINGTON. Witnesses:

E. W. BRUINGTON, B. J. SILLIMAN.

